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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 20 – February 19, 2009 752 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 08 · Issue 50 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Should developers worry about ageism?

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Gmail goes offline with Google Gears

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    An Interview with _why the Lucky Stiff

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 57 stories

  1. Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0

  2. That 'Electronic Bank Run'? Didn't happen.

  3. Applications open for summer 2009 YC funding

  4. Why Your Startup Will Fail

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  1. Y Combinator putting on special event called AngelConf for would-be investors

  2. The new reality: Ticketstumbler ($15,000 in funding) vs Fansnap ($10.5 million)

  3. Why We're Probably in For a Long Recession

  4. The Story of My Startup.

  5. Mibbit (axod's startup) video featured on Google Code Blog

  6. Sad Day For Microsoft: 5,000 Laid Off, Earnings And Revenues Down

  7. Employees working on their own business

  8. Want To Be A Startup CEO? Better Learn How To Code.

  9. The Golden Grid - CSS Framework

  10. Startup Websites that Work

Sports 26 stories

  1. Basketball Stats: They all maximize what they think they’re being paid for

  2. Six Ways to Boost Brainpower: Exercise, Diet, Stimulants, Video Games, Music, & Meditation

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  1. How we roll in Amsterdam - A method of transportation you should use too

  2. How Game Theory Solved a Religious Mystery

  3. LÖVE - a 2D game engine for rapid game development in Lua

  4. Tracking an entire Windows sytem inside Git

  5. How to game the U.S. higher-education system

  6. IPhone Game iShoot earns the Developer $600K in a month

Technology 557 stories

  1. Alex Payne: The Problem With Email Clients

  2. Introducing Mozilla Bespin, a Canvas-based IDE

  3. Google AJAX API Playground

Show 9 more
  1. Wikipedia list of algorithms

  2. Some things need to change

  3. Why CSS Should Be Used for Layout

  4. Keep Your Identity Small

  5. Should developers worry about ageism?

  6. How Not To Sort By Average Rating

  7. Congratulations, Paul & Jessica; Welcome to the world, George

  8. How to Sell More Software by Adding 12 Characters to Your Homepage

  9. Continuous Deployment at IMVU: Doing the impossible fifty times a day.

Entertainment 17 stories

  1. I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life.

  2. Mindfuck Movies

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  1. Auto-Tune: Why Pop Music Sounds Perfect

  2. Long-lost text shows Archimedes had begun to discover the principles of calculus

  3. Hulu requests removal from Boxee

  4. Study Shows Why Sleep is Needed to Form Memories

  5. Capital Factory - Austin-based YC Style Incubator

  6. Marijuana Cuts Lung Cancer Tumor Growth In Half, Study Shows

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